Melinda Maris has been recognized as one of Emory University’s 40 Under Forty. She is being honored for her progressive methods of transforming teaching and research methods across subjects. Maris was selected for her focus on evidence-based learning, research methods and spreading this knowledge to the plethora of institutions in... Read more

Since completing her PhD in Infectious Diseases, Lydia Anderson has been working towards her DVM at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Her clinical research interests span vaccinology, biomarker and diagnostic development, infectious disease surveillance, and viral immunology. She is particularly interested in developing platforms that improve the efficacy of vaccines... Read more

Lonnie Sullivan, is a Resident at Duke University Hospital, pursuing a career in Internal Medicine with a specialty in Cardiology. He chose this career path because he realized during his undergraduate years as an ARCS Scholar at Morehouse College that he not only loved science, but also loved interacting with... Read more

Jason Frieman recently began work as a research electrical engineer in the Electric Propulsion Systems Branch at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, where he will be focusing on testing propulsion systems and rockets on the ground before they’re ready for prime-time testing in space. Jason received a Ph.D.... Read more

Sarah Eisenstein (PhD in Neuroscience at University of Georgia, 2008) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She uses MRI and PET neuroimaging techniques to study the roles of white matter integrity and different neurotransmitter systems in diseases... Read more

Brady Hunsaker graduated from Georgia Tech in 2003 with a Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization and joined the University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial Engineering as a junior faculty member. His research there involved improved computational techniques for integer programming as well as looking at the possible benefits of... Read more

Keely Gilroy received her ARCS award as a graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Program at Emory University. After completing her PhD in 2003, she moved to Nashville for a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Keely joined Takeda Pharmaceuticals in 2006 as a Medical Science Liaison,... Read more

Jim Luedtke graduated from Georgia Tech with a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2007. He spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York, and then started a position as a professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.... Read more

Award-winning teacher and scientist Melinda Maris has been recognized as one of Emory University’s 40 Under Forty. She is being honored for her progressive methods of transforming teaching and research methods across subjects. Maris was selected for her focus on evidence-based learning, research methods and spreading this knowledge to the... Read more

Tony Szempruch was a 2015 ARCS fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia. His PhD research was recently selected for a 2016 Kaluza Prize, given by the American Society for Cell Biology in collaboration with Beckman Coulter Life Sciences to honor academic... Read more